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My position (in theory) would be that DNS, ISPs and datacenters are a different layer of the "freedom tech" stack. Depriving a business of the ability to host and distribute content via at least a DNS-backed website should be held to a different standard than removal from an app store or specific social media site.

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Agree. If you cared or fought for net neutrality at all then you cannot support this mentality. It’s a terrible precedence to set. Especially when it’s applied in a targeted way where one group is allowed to do the thing the other is not (e.g actual dictators allowed on Twitter and Trump not, left wing allowed to support violent riots etc.)

Do you feel this way about cake bakers to?

unless you want to sell it and eat it as well

When a single "cake baker" holds nearly half of the world's market, as monopolies like AWS do, and routinely colludes with their "competitors" to not serve anyone they dislike or that starts a competing service, absolutely.

There are thousands of other registrars out there. GoDaddy doesn't want them, they can move to someone who does. Once they've gone through them all and been rejected by every last one I'll accept that maybe maybe something should be done. Then again if you are being rejected by every single registrar out there maybe you should look inward for the problem.

That's a very libertarian take. "Why should a business have to cater to black people? Or be forced to build a ramp for a handicapped person? The market will take care of it, there are plenty of grocers in town."

DNS and network connectivity are pretty effing vital to using the web. Again, it's a much more fundamental layer than the app store, and while yes there are other registrars, I'm not sure we should condone this.

And practically, how quickly can they move to get their domain moved to another registrar? Get their nameservers moved?

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